His self-parody voice work included episodes of The Fairly Odd Parents and Kim Possible. In each, he played a retired actor who believed himself to be the superhero that he had once played in a TV series. ("Catman" in the former, "The Fearless Ferret" in the latter.)

A 2010 episode of Cartoon Network's Batman: the Brave & the Bold had a flashback sequence retelling the hero's origin, and West and Julie Newmar played Bruce Wayne's parents.

Awww that's a shame a genuine pop culture icon. I always liked seeing him appear in TV shows like The "Big Bang Theory" and when he voiced all those cartoon characters most parodying himself (Simpsons etc) with good humour. My favourite was when he voiced the "Grey Ghost" Bruce Waynes childhood hero, in an episode of the fantastic "Batman animated series"

Yeah, another childhood legend gone, PM. There's not too many left for guys our age. He seemed to have a second career playing himself (or various versions thereof) in the latter part of his career. I'd actually have liked to see him do the 1989 Batman movie. He was only about 60, and as it was mostly body doubles in the costume, I think he'd have got away with it if they'd pitched it as an older Batman. He lobbied for the part, but was only offered a cameo as Bruce Wayne's father.

Yeah so many childhood legends from film, tv , comics, pop and sport have gone and it seems like someone "leaves" us every week now. Like most folk I keep forgetting they are getting older as they are firmly fixed in my consciousness as being eternally young . I was at the shops getting mild and the "Sunday Mail" banner read "Batman Dead!" I think Mr West would have liked that :)

I heard this on the radio yesterday ( I wasn't online yesterday ) and immediately I just KNEW that you would do a piece about it, Kidda!My brother and I used to just LOVE watching it on the telly in '66! 'Twas my next favourite after Doctor Who and it was just like seeing my comic books brought to life! - SOCK! POW! We would watch the first episode at our Granny's on a Saturday and it always ended on a cliff hanger, so we would eagerly tune in the next day in our own house, "SAME BAT TIME, SAME BAT CHANNEL", to see Batman pull something out of his utility belt to get out of the predicament with!And the show made me buy more Batman comics! And then the movie came out and I rushed to the cinema to see that upon release!And, as a kid, I never noticed ANY of the silliness, - it was all exciting adventure to us!Great times to be young!In recent years, the comics have killed of Bruce Wayne and made Dick Grayson the new Batman, but now Batman is REALLY dead!Somewhere in a room, I can see the TV Joker, Penguin, Riddler and Catwoman dancing around, laughing!Well, I'm not laughing!

Well, the TV Joker, Penguin and Riddler are also dead, JP, but even if they weren't, I think they'd be shedding a discrete tear. (Not in front of one another obviously. Can't be seen to be soft when you're a villain.) Actually, if not for the TV show, the comic would probably have been cancelled, so Batman fans owe Adam West a lot, whether they realise it or not.

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About the artist:

From 1985 to 2000 A.D. (little joke there), I contributed to a variety of high profile comics and magazines for various companies.

For IPC/FLEETWAY/EGMONT, I freelanced as a lettering and logo artiston various weekly comics and monthly magazines, and also as a resize comic artistandspot illustratoron pocket books, summer specials and annuals.

ForMARVEL U.K., BLACK LIBRARY, REDAN and USBORNE BOOKS, I again freelanced as a lettering artist, also working as arestoration artistfor MARVEL U.S., restoring and re-creating certain pages of JACK KIRBY art for their MARVEL MASTERWORKS editions.

I also lettered the MARVELMAN sample pages submitted to MARVEL U.S. when they were considering acquiring the character, which - as we all now know - they DID.

Supplied comic strips, cartoons and illustrated advertisements for local business campaigns and newspaper publication on a professional basis since the age of 16. Did my first paid art job for publication at 14 or 15 for Lanarkshire Education Board.

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